🌊 Marine heatwaves to become more frequent off UK and Irish coasts, experts say Scientists find 10% chance that similar events to the ‘unheard of’ temperatures in 2023 could occur each year www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Marine heatwaves to become more frequent off UK and Irish coasts, experts say

Scientists find 10% chance that similar events to the ‘unheard of’ temperatures in 2023 could occur each year

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🚗💨 New research reveals #TyreParticles are both eaten by – and cling to – tiny estuarine animals. These particles can make up 73% of #microplastics in such habitats. Led by PhD researcher Charlotte Woodhouse (@charlwoodhouse.bsky.social) at PML & Exeter University. 🔗 pml.ac.uk/news/micropl...

Deep dive into the surge in US pedestrian deaths: "It’s not that more pedestrians are getting hit by vehicles; it’s that the ones that are getting hit are more likely to die." "[That] seems like fairly strong evidence for the theory that the rise in large SUVs is behind the uptick in ped deaths."

Why Are So Many Pedestrians Killed by Cars in the US?

It’s unfortunately not uncommon for pedestrians to be killed by cars in the US.

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For the first time ever, London has met legal limits for nitrogen dioxide. When I became Mayor, we were told it would take 193 years. We did it 184 years earlier than expected. Cleaner air means a healthier city and big savings for the NHS.

Super excited to be advertising a #PhD position on how #marine #biodiversity affects #ecosystem functioning in the #Arctic at Aarhus uni . Pls apply and repost. I am looking forward to working with you.🧪🦑🦀🌍 phd.nat.au.dk/for-applican...

Out now in @nature.com! Our comprehensive meta-analysis of global terrestrial and marine genetic diversity demonstrates rapid loss of genetic diversity and identifies conservation interventions that could mitigate this process www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪🌍🦤🧬 #consgen #PopGen

Global meta-analysis shows action is needed to halt genetic diversity loss - Nature

A comprehensive meta-analysis of global terrestrial and marine genetic diversity covering more than three decades of research demonstrates rapid loss of genetic diversity and identifies conservation i...

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My latest Forbes article is all about SUVs. Specifically, it delves into two new research papers - one from traffic engineering, and one from public health - that shows how these increasingly-popular (and increasingly large) vehicles come with major downsides 🧪 www.forbes.com/sites/laurie...

SUVs Make Traffic Worse And Are More Dangerous Than Cars

Two new research papers show the downsides of upsizing our vehicles. SUVs have a disproportionate impact on traffic jams, and they injure more people than cars

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Bottom trawling is horribly destructive to coastal ocean ecosystems, and deep-sea mining will do the same to the open ocean. #OceanFilm 🌊

It's a must see film. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Attenborough at 99: naturalist ‘goes further than before’ to speak out against industrial fishing in new film

The celebrated presenter warns of ‘modern day colonialism at sea’ as he highlights the destruction caused by overfishing and bottom trawling

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Great piece by Callum @profcallum.bsky.social on the new David Attenborough film #Ocean @exetermarine.bsky.social very relevant to our #ConvexSeascapeSurvey project. theconversation.com/david-attenb...

David Attenborough’s Ocean reveals how bottom trawling is hurting sealife in horrifying detail

Industrial fishing has caused immense damage to ocean life, but given the right protection, the sea has miraculous powers of recovery.

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Ocean with David Attenborough is deeply moving, shocking and hopeful. A call to action for policymakers around the world. A must-see film that made me proud to be a marine scientist! 🌊 #oceanwithdavidattenborough

AI-generated image crisis in science. Among these 2 TEM images, only one is true! Can you tell which one was generated by AI? Left or right? @elisabethbik.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/ajh....

A study in npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, using in-situ observations and two different tree-ring reconstructions, shows that summer 2024 was the warmest summer in 2000 years in northern Fennoscandia. 🧪

Summer 2024 in northern Fennoscandia was very likely the warmest in 2000 years - npj Climate and Atmospheric Science

Summer 2024 was exceptionally warm in northern Fennoscandia, with June-August mean temperatures at several long-term weather stations surpassing the long-standing record set in 1937. In this region, summer mean temperatures have been reconstructed from tree-ring proxies, which provide annually resolved and millennium-long records of past climate. Here we show, using in-situ observations and two different tree-ring reconstructions, that summer 2024 was the warmest summer in 2000 years in northern Fennoscandia. Employing an attribution method based on Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 climate models, we further estimate that climate change increased the likelihood of this extreme season by a factor of 93 (5–95% uncertainty range 19–881) and increased the temperature an additional 2.1 °C (1.4–2.8 °C). Atmospheric circulation patterns influencing both summers 1937 and 2024 were largely similar, suggesting a comparable large-scale circulation influence. Our findings highlight the impact of climate change for the contemporary heat extremes in Fennoscandia, indicating that the warming of summer climate is emerging from its range of natural climate variability over the last two millennia.

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www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #protistsonsky

Metagenomics of the MAST-3 stramenopile, Incisomonas, and its associated microbiome reveals unexpected metabolic attributes and extensive nutrient dependencies

Protists are polyphyletic singled-celled eukaryotes that underpin global ecosystem functioning, particularly in the oceans. Most remain uncultured, limiting investigation of their physiology and cell ...

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Increased heat transport into the Arctic contributes to Arctic Amplification and sea ice loss. Cheng et al., separate effects of heat import from the Pacific & Atlantic finding that increased Atlantic heat inflow affects the entire Arctic Ocean 🌊 🐻‍❄️ agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

It begins. What a fucking time to be a grad student. #academicsky

Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 2y ago

People with doctorates are the most liberal and progressive. The entire mission of destroying academia is to eliminate entire voting demographics. They explicitly spell this out. Shutting down PhD programs isn't an accident, it's the goal.

A new special issue of Science highlights research on Earth’s frozen places—from the Arctic to the Antarctic—and how it’s changing due to climate change and the geopolitical challenges this important work faces. Learn more: https://scim.ag/4jPYRID

Submitted my thesis today! Thank you to my supervisors Adam @marinebugs.bsky.social and Mike and everyone at @lsiexeter.bsky.social for their support over the years! 🦠🧬🧪🔬

This petition to stop Musk pouring his cash into UK politics is currently the most popular on the parliamentary petitions site It’s leapt from under 30k signatures yesterday evening to nearly 40k now You know what to do: keep signing & sharing! bsky.app/profile/guys...

Guy Shrubsole@guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 2y ago

Stop Musk from funding far-right politics in the UK! I just signed this petition 'Tighten the rules on political donations' - it's nearly at 30,000 signatures - can you add your name too? - petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

Call for postdocs proposals on Plankton Image at University of Oslo by Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions fellowships! Great international team involved! Get it touch! 📨 @biovitenskap.bsky.social www.uio.no/dscience/eng...

ONEPlankton - interconnecting methods for high-throughput phytoplankton diversity and abundance - dScience – Centre for Computational and Data Science

Read this story on the University of Oslo's website.

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Shotgun metagenomics reveals the flexibility and diversity of Arctic marine microbiomes academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a... #jcampubs

All I'm saying, @royalsociety.org, is that your one of your Fellows giving Nazi salutes is never going to be a good look for you.

Dear Brexiters and Right-wing nationalsts, The EU never told us which prime ministers we're allowed to have, but Farage collaborated with a foreign billionaire to help him buy Downing Street. How are you feeling now?

A tale of two headlines based on the same press release. The reality, of course, is that the National Trust’s nature restoration efforts will bolster good farming, by “improving the health of enough soil to provide habitat for 1 billion earthworms.”

Earth breaches 1.5 °C climate limit for the first time, climate scientists announced the breach, signalling that the world has failed, at least temporarily, to avoid crossing the threshold set by governments to avert the worst impacts of global warming 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Earth breaches 1.5 °C climate limit for the first time: what does it mean?

The threshold has been exceeded for only one year so far, but humanity is nearing the end of what many thought was a ‘safe zone’ as climate change worsens.

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The data is in. 2024 was the warmest year on record, and probably in the whole of human history – about 1.6°C warmer than the pre-industrial period. More than 1 billion individual thermometer measurements, made by thousands of people over many decades, have been condensed into a single number.

Delighted to share our new preprint on bioRxiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Where we integrated viral metagenomics and mathematical modelling to explore the temperature-driven biogeography of marine giant viruses - where do they live and why? (1/6)

Temperature-driven biogeography of marine giant viruses infecting the picoeukaryote Micromonas

Climate shapes the biogeography of microbial and viral communities in the ocean. Among abiotic factors, temperature is one of the main drivers of microbial community distribution. However, we lack kno...

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When facts become inconvenient to powerful people to the point that they’re actively ignoring them, we should be very worried.

Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is a system of deep ocean currents sending warm water north and cold water south in the Atlantic Ocean. AMOC now weaker than any other time in the past millennium. #climate www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/new...

Meltwater from Greenland and the Arctic is weakening ocean circulation, speeding up warming down south

New research shows melting ice is causing the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) to slow down, with widespread consequences for the world’s climate and ecosystems.

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